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Operating Rails in Kubernetes
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Kir Shatrov
April 17, 2018
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Operating Rails in Kubernetes
My talk at RailsConf 2018.
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April 17, 2018
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Transcript
Operating Rails in Kubernetes Kir Shatrov
1. Intro to Kubernetes 2. Rails in Kubernetes 3. Shopify’s
migration story
Containers are awesome! *
Containerizing Rails: Techniques, Pitfalls, & Best Practices by Daniel Azuma
Tomorrow 3:30pm
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app01 app02 app03
app01 app02 app03
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Smart container scheduling for better utilization
Smart container scheduling for better utilization
Smart container scheduling for better utilization
Kubernetes basics: Pod
Kubernetes basics: Deployment
web jobs Kubernetes basics: Deployment
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web jobs Kubernetes basics: Deployment
web jobs Kubernetes basics: Deployment
web jobs Kubernetes basics: Deployment
Managing Resources
YAML
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YAML apply when changed
YAML store in repository
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Deploy process controlling servers
Deploy process sequentially applying commands by SSH
Capistrano sequentially applying commands by SSH
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kubectl apply --file web.yml
kubectl apply --file jobs.yml
Controlling servers vs describing configuration
Controlling servers Describing configuration running commands remotely comparing output with
expected not prone to failures push configuration poll for it to apply abstracts from physical machines self-healing
Controlling servers Describing configuration running commands remotely comparing output with
expected not prone to failures push configuration poll for it to apply abstracts from physical machines self-healing
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It's easy to run a container, but not Rails
The Twelve-Factor app
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Disposability and termination
Web requests
Background Jobs
Long-running jobs
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Abort and re-enqueue
Concurrency scale out via the process model
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Assets
rake assets:precompile
Assets Shipped in container
Database Migrations
Migrations as a part of deploy
Migrations as a part of deploy
Asynchronous Migrations
1. Change code and add a migration 1. Add a
migration 2. Change code
1. Change code and add a migration 1. Add a
migration 2. Change code
Asynchronous Migrations
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Secret Management
Secrets in the environment
Secrets in a container
Secrets in a container
Rails 5.2 Credentials
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ENV[‘RAILS_MASTER_KEY’]
The Twelve Factors Let workers terminate gracefully Migrations as a
part of deploy can be fragile Rails 5.2 Credentials + Kubernetes Secrets
Kubernetes at Shopify
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Resource specs in YAML
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kubectl apply --file web.yml
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Let robots help humans to migrate apps Developers don’t have
to write YAML configs kubernetes-deploy brings visibility into rollout progress
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Kubernetes helps organizations to efficiently schedule workload and save resources
It’s not magic, it only schedules and runs your containers Things you need to know about Rails
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Thanks! @kirs @kirshatrov